MAG Industrial needs 1000 square meters of storage space. Purchasing land for $80,000 and erecting a temporary

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MAG Industrial needs 1000 square meters of storage space. Purchasing land for $80,000 and erecting a temporary metal building at $70 per square meter is one option. The president expects to sell the land for $100,000 and the building for $20,000 after 3 years. Another option is to lease space for $30 per square meter per year payable at the beginning of each year. The MARR is 20% per year.

(a) By hand, perform a present worth analysis of the building and leasing alternatives to determine the sensitivity of the decision if the construction cost decreases by 10% to $63 per square meter and the lease cost remains at $30 per square meter per year.

(b) Write the three spreadsheet functions that display the correct PW values.

MARR
Minimum Acceptable Rate of Return (MARR), or hurdle rate is the minimum rate of return on a project a manager or company is willing to accept before starting a project, given its risk and the opportunity cost of forgoing other...
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Engineering Economy

ISBN: 978-0073523439

8th edition

Authors: Leland T. Blank, Anthony Tarquin

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